March 2023
Intermediate to advanced
680 pages
13h 44m
English
Love’s a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with. — Theodore Sturgeon
In the previous chapter, we studied how to formulate different combinatorial optimization problems as QUBO instances that, in turn, could be rewritten as the optimization problem of finding a state with minimum energy in an Ising model system. In this chapter, we will use this fact to introduce a way of using quantum annealers — a special type of quantum computer — to try to find (approximate) solutions to those combinatorial optimization problems.
But, in order to do that, we first need to talk a little bit ...
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